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Living on the Edge An American Generation's Journey through the Twentieth Century

Settersten Richard A., Elder Glen H., Pearce Lisa D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226748122, ISBN: HB: 9780226748092, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings, 14 tables

History carves its imprint on human lives for generations after. When we think of the radical changes that transformed America during the twentieth century, our minds most often snap to the fifties and sixties: the Civil Rights Movement, changing gen...

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Political Science

Fragile Middle Class Americans in Debt

Sullivan Teresa A., Warren Elizabeth, Westbrook Jay Lawrence

ISBN: PB: 9780300251890, Yale University Press, April 2020
400 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 20 black&white illus.

In this classic analysis of hard-pressed families, the authors discover that financial stability for many middle-class Americans is all too fragile. The authors consider the changing cultural and economic factors that threaten financial security and...

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Newcomers Gentrification and Its Discontents

Schuerman Matthew L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226476261, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Gentrification is transforming cities, small and large, across the country. Though it's easy to bemoan the diminished social diversity and transformation of commercial strips that often signify a gentrifying neighborhood, determining who actually ben...

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Garland of Bones Child Runaways in India

Steinberg Jonah

ISBN: HB: 9780300222807, Yale University Press, February 2019
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.

This intimate portrait examines the tracks, journeys, and experiences of child runaways in northern India. Jonah Steinberg situates children's decisions to leave home and flee for the city in their larger cultural, social, and historical contexts, an...

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Voices of Jordan

Sweis Rana F.

ISBN: PB: 9781787380134, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
184 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Jordan's diverse socioeconomic make-up encapsulates, like no other Middle Eastern state, both the array of pressing short-term problems facing the region, and the underlying challenges that Arab states will need to face once th...

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Down, Out, and Under Arrest Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row

Stuart Forrest

ISBN: PB: 9780226566207, ISBN: HB: 9780226370811, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 2 maps

In his first year working in Los Angeles's Skid Row, Forrest Stuart was stopped on the street by police fourteen times. Usually for doing little more than standing there. Juliette, a woman he met during that time, has been stopped by police well over...

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America

Building the Prison State Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration

Schoenfeld Heather

ISBN: PB: 9780226521015, ISBN: HB: 9780226520964, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 13 line drawings, 4 tables

The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world – about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people – while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial disp...

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Islam

Ethnologia Europaea 46:1 Special Issue: Muslim Intimacies

Stark Laura

ISBN: PB: 9788763544870, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2017
131 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm

In every society, individual choice and freedom are shaped at least to some degree by the needs of familial and marital institutions. Currently, negotiations between individuals and families are undergoing transformations due to late modern processes...

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Making Trouble Surrealism and the Human Sciences

Sayer Derek

ISBN: PB: 9780996635523, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2017
95 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm

Surrealism was not merely an artistic movement to its adherents but an "instrument of knowledge", an attempt to transform the way we see the world by unleashing the unconscious as a radical, new means of constructing reality. Born out of the crisis o...

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Going Public A Guide for Social Scientists

Stein Arlene, Daniels Jessie

ISBN: PB: 9780226364780, ISBN: HB: 9780226364643, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 9 line drawings, 1 table

At a time when policy discussions are dominated by "I feel" instead of "I know," it is more important than ever for social scientists to make themselves heard. When those who possess in-depth training and expertise are excluded from public debates ab...

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